KOROLYOV (Moscow region). July 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Members of Expedition 17 at the International Space Station (ISS) Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko have returned to the Pirs docking compartment after spending six hours in outer space.

HOUSTON - NASA has pushed back the
planned launch of the final flight to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope by up
to five weeks due to external fuel tank delays, mission managers said Thursday.
Space shuttle program manager John
Shannon said that the additional time required to include post-Columbia safety
improvements in two shuttle fuel tanks supporting the Hubble
servicing mission have delayed the spaceflight to no earlier than late
September.

At 5:16 pm (11:16 am GMT) on Tuesday, the first Korean was launched into space on a Russian Soyuz TMA-12 spaceship. The launch took place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the worldâ€™s oldest space launch pad.

Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday to begin a six-month stay in space.